Ok folks, I'm back now for chapter two! YAY! Ok, taking excitement down a notch or two enjoy…right after this short disclaimer:

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Chapter 2 Early Morning Disaster

Tai

Well the mood in the car was a much quieter one as we drove to Izzy's house. While we had never ruled out the possibility of a new digimon attack at any time, after all that was the reason that Izzy, Mimi, Joe, and Cody were at Izzy's apartment, none of us had really expected that to ever happen.

Sora was in the passenger seat of my car, while Kari and Davis were in the back. There was no cramming this time since Matt had his van for everyone else. The lack of any sort of conversation sent of lots of signals to me that no one was in a good mood. To go from celebrating at a pizza parlor to a potential battle wasn't doing good for anyone. Even Sora, who had been more cheerful than I'd ever seen her these last few months, seemed down.

I've got to get everyone to snap out of this funk… I think to myself as I stop at a light. Matt's van is nowhere to be seen, since, well I drive really fast.

"Why the long faces?" I ask, trying to get some sort of conversation started to snap everyone out of their sulking. Everyone would be looking to Davis and me for leadership,so we had to be cheerful, if only for everyone else's benefit, and I really hated seeing Sora or Kari not happy.

Kari and Davis just glanced at my eyes in the rear view mirror while Sora turned to me.

"Tai I think you know why no one's happy." Sora said simply, in a slightly pissed off tone of voice.

"What? Izzy's text message?" That earned me a nod from Sora. "Well, that's probably just Izzy playing a prank on us."

"Tai when have you ever heard of Izzy playing a prank ever?" Kari asked from the back of the car, "Anyways the reason we put him in charge of getting everyone together is because he wouldn't pull a prank like you or Davis would."

"Hey!" Davis said as I simply laughed. Yea that did sound like something I would do. I saw the corner of Sora's mouth twitch as I'm sure the same thought was going through her mind. "I wouldn't…ok, maybe I would pull a prank like that…" Davis sputtered into nonsense as his brain caught up with his instant reaction. This caused both Kari and Sora to laugh as Davis started grinning sheepishly.

I laughed as well, glad that everyone seemed to be relaxing a little bit, and Davis had actually managed to stop himself before saying anything really dumb. It wasn't that Davis wasn't smart, he, like me often times, ok most of the time, just didn't think every time before he talked.

"See, no one had to be all unhappy about this!" I exclaim as the light turns green and I speed off heading towards Izzy's apartment. "Anyways, it's probably just another herd of Numemon that accidently ran over one of our partners." There were more snorts of laughter. The month before a herd of Numemon had accidently ran over Palmon when she was getting some water from a river. We weren't sure what had happened, so we went in prepared for anything. Needless to say just getting a look at WarGreymon and Imperialdramon ready for action had caused the Numemon to run for their lives, and all of us digidestined to collapse with laughter.

Oh yea! I forgot to fill you guys in on one thing. When my emotions and my body were separated my Crest was reformed, along with all of its powers, which means that my digimon partner Agumon regained the power to reach his Ultimate and Mega levels, allowing me to help out the younger digidestined if they got into a serious fight. Unfortunately none of the other digidestined had been able to find their Crests, so I was the only one from the original digidestined able to bring my digimon up to full power. Gennai didn't have any explanation as to why my Crest and no one else's was returned, but I've never been one to not accept a gift, especially one as useful as this, so I wasn't complaining.

Ok, back to our car ride, which was just ending. All of the people in my car seemed cheered up, so I marked that as a victory for me and my wonderful leadership skills. The four of us headed up the stairs, Sora grabbing ahold of my hand as we headed up towards Izzy's floor. After four months of dating Sora I'd finally gotten used to all of the little things she did, and I did in return, as a couple.

We weren't an over affectionate couple, most of the time at least, earlier wasn't a very good example, it was more like we were the best of friends, who also held hand and, usually when no one was around, kissed. Really I couldn't have asked for more, since I had my best friend and the love of my life all at once.

The four of us got to Izzy's apartment, and Davis knocked on the door. Hopefully Izzy would just let us in without needing some silly password like he had during the battle with Armageddemon. Luckily for us Izzy's mother answered the door and let us in.

We headed straight for Izzy's room, where he did make us use a password.

As Davis knocks on the door we hear a muffled voice ask, "Pro-?"

"Izzy, who else is going to be on the other side of the door? Just let us in!" I say, banging on the door once more.

"Just answer the password Tai!" The voice responds.

"See! You know it's me!" I say, grinning in triumph. Sora is shaking her head and looking away, while Davis nods enthusiastically and Kari copies Sora. The door remains closed and I finally get fed up with it. I could be stubborn with Izzy, but I had other things I wanted to do tonight. "-Digious!"

The door opened a crack and I forced my way into the room, giving Izzy a slight glare. I knew he meant well, I just didn't like having to talk to a door to get into a room.

"Tai!" A voice shouts and my digimon partner, Koromon, jumps into my arms. All of our digimon were in their In-Training states, partially to save energy on their parts and partially to save space.

"Hey Koromon, what's all the fuss about?" I ask my partner, who glances at Izzy.

"Let's wait until the others arrive Tai." Izzy said, and I nod. Once upon a time I would have argued that we, or more specifically I, should have the information now, but I'd grown up a bit and could wait.

Sora, Davis, and Kari all entered the room after me, and were greeted just as enthusiastically as I was by their partners, Davis especially. DemiVeemon really was a little bouncing ball of energy, even more than most In-Training digimon.

I sat down at one of the chairs Izzy had in his room and said hi to the other three digidestined in the room. Joe Kido, Mimi Tachikawa, and Cody Hida all greeted me back and asked about the soccer game.

I didn't go into details since I knew the three of them didn't like soccer that much, which is why they had volunteered to watch all twelve of the digimon, who could be quite a handful. We all chatted for a few minutes, catching up with the three digidestined who were the most isolated from the rest of us while Izzy did something with his computer.

None of us meant to isolate Joe, Mimi, or Cody; they all simply went to different schools. Joe was in college and on a different schedule from the rest of us, not to mention busy with his college classes. Cody was stuck in middle school since he was the youngest of the digidestined, which meant he was only seen on the weekends or the occasional weekday when everyone got out at the same time. Finally Mimi lived in America, and even with the digiport transport system, she couldn't visit too often.

Before long there was another knock on the door, and Izzy turned towards it and asked "Pro-?"

I mumbled about the stupidity of the whole thing under my breath, and I'm pretty sure Izzy didn't hear me.

I heard what sounded like a sigh from the other side of the door, and then Matt's muffled voice answered "-Digious."

Izzy moved and opened the door, allowing Matt, T.K., Ken, and Yolei to enter the room. "Ok, now that everyone is here, I can fill you guys in."

Everyone found their seats fairly quickly and Izzy turned his computer screen around so it was facing the entire room. I was sitting on Izzy's bed in between Sora and Davis, while Kari and T.K. were on the opposite side of Davis. Matt was on the other side of Sora, and that was everyone sitting on, or rather squeezed onto, the bed. Joe and Mimi were in chairs next to Izzy, while Ken, Yolei and Cody all sat on the floor opposite from Izzy's computer. Everyone's partners were pretty much sitting on their laps, except DemiVeemon, who was sitting on Davis's head.

"OK, Izzy, what's the big emergency?" I ask the question that is on (nearly) everyone's mind.

Izzy opened the program on his computer and it showed the continent of Server, a location familiar to all of us older digidestined.

"In the last three days there have been reports of attacks against some of the villages in this area." Izzy said, highlighting the area in question. "Gennai has asked us to check it out."

"That's the big emergency?" Yolei said, and frankly I agreed. Every one of us had thought there had been some serious attack against the digital world thanks to Izzy's text message, even me. I had actually been just as worried as the others during the car ride, I had just been trying to cheer everyone up instead of acting worried, and to find out it was something this minor was, well frustrating.

"Yolei, I know this seems minor, but Gennai thinks it could be bigger and related to the Parasimon incident four months ago." Izzy replied, grabbing everyone's attention. The Parasimon were the digimon that had managed to gain control of Matt and Davis, using them against the rest of the digidestined four months ago when they had been trying to find me in the digital world.

"Why's that Izzy?" Davis asked a serious look on his face.

"It's only a few sectors away from the sector where all of that happened, and there are quite a few of the same energy signals being detected in that area." Izzy said, pressing another button on his computer, and several graphs showing things incomprehensible to me, appeared near the blinking lights showing the locations of villages. "I think this needs to be checked out."

Everyone was silent for a moment, and I knew I had to weigh in my opinion on this. None of us wanted to deal with this problem, but we had a responsibility as the digidestined to deal with it and help the digital world in any way possible.

"Izzy's right." I declared, and everyone turned to me. "I know we really don't want to deal with this, especially since it seems rather trivial, but it's our responsibility to deal with this."

Everyone looked at me, and slowly nodded. There that wasn't that hard. I think in triumph.

"Ok, well go tomorrow since it's rather late…" Izzy started off, and everyone suddenly started talking at once.

"Tomorrow!"

"Izzy! I can't make it that soon!"

"I already had plans!"

"IZZY!"

Izzy shrank back as just about everyone started complaining at once, and I sighed. Izzy should have known better. Several of us had already made plans to go camping the next day, and just about everyone else was busy.

Well, that didn't end well. I think to myself, there has to be a way to get this fixed… I think for a few seconds as the complaints continue, then get a sudden idea. It should be a small problem right? Something Agumon and I could probably handle on our own, and quickly!

"Everyone! Quiet!" I shout, causing everyone to settle down quickly. As soon as I have everyone's attention I stand up from the bed and face everyone. "I'll take care of this problem."

"What?" Izzy says before anyone else can respond.

"Well, everyone has plans already for tomorrow, so I'll just go on my own and take care of this. I'll have Agumon and my Crest with me, so I should be able to deal with a small problem like this!" I reply, and Koromon jumps up.

"Yea! We can handle this!"

"But Tai! You're supposed to come camping with us!" Sora says from the bed, while Kari, T.K., Davis, and Matt all nod.

Since the AJHST started during the second week of winter break, Sora, Matt, Davis, Kari, T.K. and I had all planned to have a big camping trip out in the woods near Mt. Fuji the first wekk, just to get some relaxing in before the tournament started up.

"And I still will!" I reply with a smile. "I can probably wrap things up in the digital world, and still beat you guys there if you're driving in Matt's van!"

"Hey!" Matt said as just about everyone in the room snorted with laughter.

"And don't say you guys will wait for me, I'll take care of this little problem, and then we can all go back to our lives." I said my lopsided grin on my face as I looked at all of the digidestined.

"Tai are you sure?" Ken asked as he stood up from where he was sitting.

"Yea Ken, it's just finding some dumb virus champion that wanted to mess with a bunch of In-training digimon, MetalGreymon will make him think twice about doing that when he'd reborn." I reply confidently. "Everyone has plans, and you shouldn't have to ruin them over a small matter like this. So everyone go enjoy yourselves and I'll take care of this."

There, hopefully they won't argue anymore. I think to myself, hoping my friends wouldn't try to out stubborn me.

"Tai, don't you have plans too?" Joe asks from his seat next to Izzy.

"Yea Joe, but I'm the leader, this is my responsibility!" I reply, and everyone seems to finally accept my offer.

Good, it's about time. I think with relief.

"Ok, now that's settled, let's get on to more important thing! Like dinner!" I shout, and Davis and all of the digimon cheer with me.

We spend the rest of the night in Izzy's apartment having picked up a bunch of frozen pizzas from Yolei's convenience store to replace the store made ones we could no longer get. It was a really fun time, especially catching up with all of the digidestined who hadn't been around for a while. Eventually we made plans to have everyone come out and meet us at the cabin we would be staying at for our trip, that way it'd be like a huge digidestined reunion.

Around eleven everyone headed out as Mrs. Izumi needed all of us out of the apartment, and I headed straight to our apartment complex. Davis was spending the night with us so we wouldn't have to pick him up in the morning. Sora and I had tried to convince our parents to let Sora stay the night as well, but they thought the two of us sleeping in the same apartment would be a bad idea. I was almost disappointed that our parents had so little trust in us.

I walked Sora back up to her apartment while Kari, Davis, and T.K. (who had arrived with Matt, and would be staying in his apartment) all went to our apartment to watch a movie. Usually Sora and I would join them, but I planned on getting to the digital world early in the morning and dealing with the problem so I could make the camping trip on time.

We both slowly walk up to her door, surrounded in a comfortable silence, you know the type I'm talking about, the kind between two best friends who know no words are needed at that moment.

We stop at her door, and I flash Sora my grin. "So it looks like you'll have to ride in Matt's old van tomorrow."

"You know Tai; I could just stay and help you…" Sora tells me, and I shake my head.

"It's fine Sor, this'll be a really easy problem, and you should go have a fun time with everyone." I tell her.

"But what if I just want to be with you?" She asks, and I can't help but be happy. I mean who isn't happy when the woman they love asks them that?

"You should still go with everyone else, if nothing else than to not abandon Kari to all of the guys," I tell her with a smile, and she nods. I'm really glad Sora understands me so well, because with any other girl they probably would have taken that as an attempt to get rid of her. Sora knew me better. She understood that her having fun, and a good time was very important to me, and that I could be very stubborn about it.

"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow afternoon then." Sora says, leaning forward. We kiss on her doorstep, just a simple goodnight kiss, and then break apart.

"I love you." I tell her simply, and she smile and replies,

"I love you too."

~The Next Morning~

The next morning I woke up rather slowly. Davis and DemiVeemon were snoring rather loudly on the floor of my room and I step gingerly over them. They wouldn't wake up until DemiVeemon started to get hungry so I left them for now. In the living room I could see Kari and T.K. asleep, arm in arm on the sofa where they had fallen asleep the night before and had to grin. So much for T.K. not sleeping over, mom would probably flip.

Should I wake T.K. up to save them from mom's wrath? I thought to myself looking at them. I should…after I get a picture for blackmail! Hahahaha! I pull out my phone and snap a picture of the two, send it to Sora since she would get a good laugh from the blackmail picture, and then slowly wake T.K. up.

"Huh? Wassgoinon?" He asks groggily, then sees me standing over him, and feels my sister next to him. T.K. visibly gulps, and I smile.

"Time for you to go home T.K., before my parents find you here." I tell the younger boy who nods, and slowly untangles himself from a deeply sleeping Kari, and heads out the door, a sleeping Tokomon under his arm.

For my part I get ready for my morning in the digital world, pulling out the clothes I was going to wear, one of my (many) blue shirts, with a longer one underneath to combat the cold, and a pair of dark brown pants. My goggles were the next part of my outfit, since I couldn't very well go anywhere without them, and finally my Crest. Next I woke up the sleeping Koromon and we were ready to go. I opened up the digiport program on my computer, and held up my digivice.

Luckily Izzy had found a way to allow us older digidestined's digivices to open up the digiports on the computer so we could all access the digital world when we needed to without bothering the younger digidestined everytime.

In a second I and Koromon were sucked up by the screen, and then I was lying on the ground with Agumon sitting on my chest.

"Agumon, you want to get off me?" I wheezed as Agumon was crushing the breath out of me.

"Sorry Tai!" Agumon exclaimed as he rolled of me, and I just laughed a bit.

"It's not your fault. I really just wish Izzy would just figure out a way for us to not land so awkwardly." I told him, and it was the truth. You'd think that someone as smart as Izzy could figure out how to make the landings in the digital world a little less awkward and uncomfortable.

The two of us stood looking around and Agumon asked the obvious question.

"So..um Tai? Where do we go now?" He asked, since he didn't happen to know where any of the villages were.

"Hold on a second, let my check my map." I tell him, reaching into my pants cargo pocket looking for the map I'd printed out of this sector of the digital world.

"Tai is this map like the one you made on File Island? Because I don't think it'll help us then…" Agumon said, trailing off as I glared at him.

"You mean the map that you burned and we never got to use?" I ask quietly, and Agumon gulps nodding. "Nope, I printed this one off the computer, so it should be useful." I'm grinning now as Agumon lets out a sigh of relief that I'm not actually still mad over my long lost map.

I take a few minutes to orient myself and find the marked digiport TV on the map where we arrived. As soon as I do that I can see we aren't too far from one of the villages that hasn't been bothered yet.

"Ok Agumon, we're going to check out a village, it's that way!" I tell my partner, pointing in the general direction of the village, and then starting to walk that way, Agumon a few feet behind me.

The two of us chat as we walk and I tell Agumon all about the soccer game. He's really taken to soccer in the last few months. I don't know if it's because it's one of the biggest things I'm doing outside of school or if he genuinely was starting to like the sport, but he always wanted to hear about my games. I hadn't had the time last night since there had been to many people, and digimon, to give an in depth play by play of the game.

That entertained the two of us for the couple of hours that it took for us to arrive at the village, which turned out to be a Poromon village with a Hawkmon in charge of them all. I spent some time talking to the Hawkmon while Agumon played around with the little In-Training digimon.

"So you don't have any idea what's been happening at the other villages?" I ask towards the end of our conversation. This Hawkmon had been far too busy taking care of the Poromon to really be bothered by things happening outside the village.

"No, though a couple of days ago one of the Poromon told me he saw smoke rising in the east." Hawkmon replied and I nodded, thinking about the map. There was another village not too far to the east of this village.

"Ok thanks, we'll check it out." I tell the Hawkmon who nods and heads out to where most of the Poromon and formed a pile on top of Agumon.

"Tai! Help!" I hear a muffled shout from the bottom of the pile and have to laugh. Agumon seemed to finally have had too much fun. Hawkmon acted quickly getting all the Poromon off of Agumon who was still lying on the ground when they got off of him.

"Come on Agumon, we're going to check on another village." I tell Agumon, reaching down and pulling him to his feet.

"Ok, but no more Poromon!" Agumon exclaimed, and I let out a laugh.

"Hellfire!" There was a sudden shout that caused me to look up from Agumon, just as dozens of explosions destroy half of the village. I dive for cover as they continue across the central square Agumon and I are in.

"AGUMON!" I shout holding out my digivice.

"Agumon digivolve to! Greymon!" Agumon was transformed from his small yellow lizard form into a giant orange dinosaur with blue stripes running all over his body.

A deep growl could be heard in Greymon's throat as he turned towards the source of the explosions. I couldn't see anything for a second as the smoke left over from the explosions was blocking everything from sight, then the attacker started to move forward.

It was a man shaped digimon wearing what looked like a pin striped suit, like some mobster from an American movie. His face was covered in some sort of mask, and in his right arm he carried some sort of gun, which was still smoking from its earlier use.

"Get him Greymon!" I shout to my partner, who nods, charging up a fireball in his mouth.

"Nova Blast!" He shouts as he lets out a giant fireball, right at the digimon, who simply stops walking forward. The fire ball got closer to him, and then impacted, covering him once again in a massive amount of smoke.

"Alright Greymon!" I shout, throwing a fist into the air in triumph.

"Maverick!" A shout is heard, just before the digimon lands a kick right on Greymon's chest, sending him flying into one of the Poromon village's buildings. There was a sick crunching sound as Greymon's body completely destroyed the building. I winced as that happened.

Ops, so much for protecting the village. I think with a wince.

"Greymon!" I shout out to my partner as he slowly rises from the wreckage of the building.

"Maverick!" The digimon flies in again throwing Greymon to the far side of the central square.

"Greymon!" I shout again, feeling useless as my partner is thrown around like a rag doll. I look around for anything that could allow me to help out Greymon, and spy several rocks lying on the ground. I quickly pick them and turn towards the digimon, who is advancing towards the struggling Greymon.

"Hey you! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" I shout as I throw one of the rocks at the digimon. I'm a soccer player, not a baseball player, so the first rock flies right past its head, but the second one manages to hit the digimon right on his head.

That causes him to turn from Greymon right to me. Uh oh… I think as the powerful digimon starts walking towards me.

"So who is someone my size boy? Because you certainly aren't." He declares, and I glare at him, winding my arm up again. The rock hits him right in the forehead. I don't know why he didn't dodge the rock, but it certainly pissed him off a bunch more.

He jumped straight into the air, flying far higher than I had seen him do before, and was heading straight for me. Oh great… I think just as my Crest lets out a bright orange light.

"Greymon digivolve to! MetalGreymon! Ragh!" Greymon was suddenly covered in metal armor, his head completely covered in it, while his left arm was now mechanical. His chest had what looked like a pair of doors on it and he had purple wings.

"Mega Claw!" Seconds before the digimon would have landed right on top of me MetalGreymon's metal claw hit him, and sent him crashing into another of the buildings in the village. The building splintered from the force of the digimon crashing into it. MetalGreymon stood behind me, retracting his metal claw.

"Finish him off MetalGreymon!" I shout, trying not to let any of the fear that was running through me color my voice. Yea I know what your all thinking, how could I be scared? Well a couple of things you should know, one I'm scared all the time, Courage is finding the ability to overcome that fear and press on. Second this was the first digimon who had actually tried to kill a human in a number of years, so I was understandably a little frightened.

"Right!" MetalGreymon replied, drawing energy into his chest. "Giga Blaster!" The two doors on his chest opened up revealing a pair of powerful looking missiles which proceeded to fire out towards the destroyed building. The missiles raced through the air, gaining speed just as they impacted.

The explosion caused by their impact was massive. Almost a quarter of the Poromon village was destroyed by their detonation, and the location where they hit was now just a crater. I actually had to hold onto MetalGreymon's leg to be kept from being blown away.

As the winds from the explosion dies down I slowly let go of MetalGreymon's leg, and look around. I can clearly see the crater caused by the attack, and breathe a sigh of relief. The digimon was defeated, even if it had taken more than I expected.

"Hellfire!" There were explosions all around MetalGreymon and I, and I'm pretty sure they were hitting him since he let out several shouts of pain. I could literally see the ground in front of me exploding.

MetalGreymon was forced to his knees as the attack continued to hit him, finally dedigivolving into Agumon and collapsing next to me. Luckily the attack seemed to stop as MetalGreymon returned to Agumon. I looked around, trying to find the digimon, but he found me first. I felt a foot hit my stomach and I was thrown across the village, into one of the remaining buildings.

My entire body was shot through with pain as the building stopped all of my momentum from being thrown across the square and I let out a gasp from the pain as I hear several loud cracks. I slid down from the wall of the building and landed on my knees. I took a second to breathe, and then forced myself to my feet. I had to get up and I had to get to Agumon before the digimon did something to him.

"I'm coming Agumon…" I say through gritted teeth.

"Here, let me help you!" A voice says from right behind me before I'm thrown right back into the center of the square. I can hardly breathe now as the wind was knocked out of me, and I'm pretty sure I've got some broken ribs, and something else as there was another crack, much louder than the first one. I can't tell very easily since my entire body hurts, and I'm barely retaining consciousness.

I feel cold steel press into the back of my neck, and I'm flipped over. The digimon has his gun pointed right into my chest, ready to pull the trigger. All of this is so sudden I can't even comprehend what's about to happen.

"Astamon!" a vaguely familiar voice called out, and the digimon pulled the gun from my chest. "Leave him; it's more important for the next act that he live." The voice started to laugh, and something about that laugh seemed familiar, but I was already fading out of consciousness. That laugh was the last thing I heard before everything went dark.

OH NO! Tai! Will Tai live? And even more horrible, a really big cliffhanger! NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Ok, end excess energy wasting. Hope everyone enjoyed that chapter. Let me know what you thought, good or bad. Just click that nice review button down below my A/N. It makes everyone happier =). Until next time!

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